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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Aucissa brooch of Roman date, about AD 43 - AD 75. The head is sub rectangular and rolled. There is a lobe present to the left and right of the head before the bowextends and tapersinto a U-shaped bow in profile with a D-shaped section. On the front of the bow there is a central raised ridge that runs from the head to the tip just above the catch plate. The tip of the brooch is bent 90 degrees on its vertical axis and terminates in a rounded knop foot which is decorated with two raised ribs running around its circumference. Most of the catchplate survives and it extends upwards from the rounded foot. The axis bar is present but rusted and the pin partly survives and is 6.6mm in length.The metal has a light brown-green patina. The brooch is 42.3mm in length, 14.8mm wide, 2.3mm thick and weighs 6.03g.Similar examples are illustrated in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue' p.317 Fig.176 no.43 and are dated to AD 43-75.
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